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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe offer the King after eating King's eggs?
(a) Tobacco cured in the Javanese way.
(b) A free night out in town.
(c) A Cuban cigar.
(d) A machete.

2. Who is Sean?
(a) A young boy who serves the officers.
(b) A cross-dresser.
(c) The camp idiot.
(d) The camp cook.

3. About what is the King thinking when he spies a man talking with a native?
(a) Selling the item for Major Barry.
(b) Doing K.P.
(c) Asking Col. Brant for a transfer.
(d) A diamond deal.

4. Who does the King summon into his hut?
(a) A prison guard.
(b) A laundry woman.
(c) The camp stoolie.
(d) The man speaking with the native.

5. Why can't Marlowe sleep the night after the King talks with him about going outside the wire?
(a) He is too hot.
(b) He is planning on how to take over the King's operations.
(c) He keeps thinking about the voyage from Java.
(d) He is afraid to go outside the wire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drinks quinine and then has nightmares?

2. For what do the Korean guards search?

3. Who is Lt. Grey?

4. What does Kurt bring in at the end of Chapter 10?

5. How does Lt. Grey think of his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret does the King leak to the Australians and how does Marlowe react to the news?

2. What are Lt. Grey's thoughts after being assigned new duties?

3. Who does Col. Brant reprimand and for what reason?

4. Describe The King.

5. What do the King, Marlowe and Max talk about concerning the rat project?

6. How does Marlowe demonstrate the part of his personality that might be labeled risk taker or thrill seeker?

7. Why does Lt. Grey arrest two of Larkin's men and what is Larkin's response?

8. Describe Steven.

9. Describe Col. Kennedy's reactions to Steven.

10. Describe Max.

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